170 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
historian o£ its whole avifauna, though Sir William Jardine 
lived in it of old. We therefore cordially welcome this work 
on one of its counties by Mr. Gladstone, the more so as 
we are sorry to hear that Mr. R. Service may be unable 
to publish his intended volume on the entire district. The 
author has taken great trouble to make the book as perfect 
an account of the birds as possible, and has spared no pains 
in examining the literature of the subject and investigating 
doubtful records. To a great extent it maybe considered an 
account of the birds of the Solway, as constant references are 
made to the distribution of species in the area, and a whole 
chapter is devoted to migration. Bird-protection, local 
names, and the use of flight-nets have also separate sections 
allotted to them, while the physical features and climate are 
discussed at very considerable length. In short, we have here 
an admirable piece of work, almost too long for a single 
volume, as will be seen from the number of pages. Perhaps 
the Bibliography might have been abbreviated, but even this 
will appeal to the local men of science, while the account of 
former writers on the Ornithology of the county is of interest 
to us all. Some of the most valuable sections are those on 
such birds as the Hawfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 
Stock-Dove, and Tufted Duck, which have increased con¬ 
spicuously in Scotland of late years, on the former breeding 
of the Bittern and Ptarmigan in the Solway, and that on the 
occurrence of such rarities as the Blue-winged Teal and 
Lesser White-fronted Goose. Two hundred and eighteen 
species are included in the list,, while thirty-nine others are 
doubtfully recorded. No student of local faunas can afford 
to be without this book, which may be compared in style of 
treatment with those of Dr. Ticehurst on Kentish Birds and 
of Messrs. Coward and Forrest on the Vertebrate Fauna of 
Cheshire and North Wales respectively. 
13. Grands List of British Birds. 
[A List of British Birds, showing at a Glance the exact Status of each 
Species. Revised to August, 1910. By W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. 
Witherby & Co., 1910. 8vo, 69 pp.] 
Having been frequently asked during the last few years 
